41.   Some analysts believe the market is showing signs of improved investor expectations as they wait for the bear market to bottom out.

42.   Stung by a rash of recalled medicines, the agency has redoubled its scrutiny of new medicines, slowing approvals and confounding investor expectations.

43.   Stocks could retreat next week as profit warnings lower investor expectations for earnings growth in the current quarter.

44.   Telephone shares, though, had been rising for much of the day, largely on investor expectations that telecom shares had become cheap relative to projected earnings.

45.   Taken together, these signs of slack demand sent Treasury bonds soaring amid rising investor expectations for another interest rates cut by the Federal Reserve.

46.   Telephone shares, though, had been rising for much of the day, largely on investor expectations that telecommunications shares had become cheap relative to projected earnings.

47.   Taiwan stocks slid after government moves to support the market fell short of investor expectations, analysts said.

48.   That spread was nine basis points narrower than it was a week earlier, suggesting investor expectations for a Fed interest rate cut declined last weak.

49.   That view is supported by one of the most reliable measures of investor expectations for Fed action -- rates on Eurodollar contracts for three-month dollar deposits overseas.

50.   That could go a long way to shaping investor expectations about whether the Fed will have to raise rates later in the year.